25 October 2008

The 19 October front-page in the air Times has an interesting juxtapositionof articles about health information and privacy. On one hand we heard aboutDr. Church's genome project and how will reveal all the information abouthimself and 10 individual volunteers. On the other hand, we heard about thepresidential candidates strongly restricting access to their personal healthinformation in this year's campaign. While the volunteers for Dr. Church'sproject are to be commended for revealing literally all about themselves, could one imagine the presidential candidates in an election consenting to have their genomesequenced and mined for all to see.